Finally Revealed: Obamacare’s Hidden Gem

An obscure provision in the Affordable Care Act, a new report details, raises taxes on firms that overpay their top execs. The only problem: The provision so far only applies to corporations in one industry. Read more . . .

How Much Wealth Are Our Wealthiest Hiding?

More than enough, the latest statistical evidence suggests, to warrant a full-fledged federal search. A new banking law in effect this month could start that search in the right direction. Read more . . .

A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set

A key keeper of the free-market fundamentalist flame wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution. Read more . . .

Remember When People Had Pensions?

America’s corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we’re told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement security. Read more . . .

Crocodile-Tear Time for America’s Free Press

A rather ruthless billionaire has grabbed one of the world’s great newspapers. But you don’t have to be a high-tech plutocrat, the paper’s previous regime has demonstrated, to help make our world more unequal.

A Whistle-Blower for Grand Philanthropy

A foundation world insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can’t ignore wealth’s maldistribution and hope to fix an unequal world. Read more . . .

Why Do Americans Live Lives So Short?

To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth people can expect to live the longest lives. Read more . . .

Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted

A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren’t saving us. Read more . . .

Why Aren’t More of Us Protesting Inequality?

A quartet of egalitarian-minded academics have subjected a central political question of our time to rigorous research scrutiny. Read more . . .

Presenting America’s Ten Greediest of 2012

Some of today’s most greedy are running giant multinational corporations. Some are just running their mouths. Their stories remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in the year that beckons ahead. Read more . . .

Our Inequality Political Cartoon of the Year: Peter Steiner, September 2012, reprinted from Hopeless but not Serious